Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man claiming or popularly believed to practice sorcery or witchcraft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fetterlock.
- noun A deceiver; a truce-breaker; a traitor.
- noun A person in league with the devil; a sorcerer; a wizard.
- noun A monster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
- noun A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The male equivalent of
witch . - noun obsolete A
traitor or oath-breaker. - noun obsolete The
Devil ,Satan ; ademon . - noun A man in league with the Devil; a male magic-user, a
wizard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a male witch or demon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And a trio of Salem witches, not pleased by Sheen's use of the term "warlock," have cast a healing spell in his honor.
Charlie Sheen on 'SNL' and in his 'Korner'; Lindsay Lohan surveillance video leaked 2011
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So he and some other Salem folks are planning a ritual on Sunday designed, they told the Gazette to... dissuade Sheen from misusing the word warlock in the future.
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My old lady, Lucille, hates anything that sounds remotely like music, the new-age shop guy kicked me out because he found the term warlock offensive My great grandfather beat up a warlock.
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According to Day...the word "warlock" originally referred to men who interacted with the spirit world.
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So any warlock is going to be 90% identical to another warlock of the same level.
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And the undead warlock is apparently a Undead Shaman, yep!
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Will thought you were most likely a warlock, which is what I would have guessed myself, but all warlocks have some attribute that marks them as warlocks.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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It's called the warlock system, which would have detected or set off anything with a wireless signal that would set off that bomb, so they believe this bomb was actually wired probably underground and detonated remotely through that wire instead of wirelessly.
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The warlock was a short fellow in his late thirties, younger than I, though with his wobbling paunch, graying goatee, and the broken veins in his bulbous nose, he looked older.
And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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The Greek magos here means a practitioner of black magic, called warlock in English, from the Old English waerloga a breaker of faith.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
treeseed commented on the word warlock
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary
noun
Etymology: Middle English warloghe, from Old English wǣrloga one that breaks faith, the Devil, from wǣr faith, troth + -loga (from lēogan to lie); akin to Old English wǣr true — more at very, lie
Date: 14th century
1 : a man practicing the black arts : sorcerer — compare witch
2 : conjurer
January 27, 2008
treeseed commented on the word warlock
Never used to describe a modern male practitioner of Wicca...a male witch is simply a male witch. To a Wiccan, warlock is at worst considered a derogatory term and at best a comic one.
January 27, 2008